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That is an interesting idea, but not sure that I would completely agree. If someone did not find a place for some reason, they may end up creating another page that is off just a few feet from the lat/long. Exact searching would be interesting too. It seems like there could be some issues with bound...

I do wish that PAF resolved the place right to left as well. I do quite a few advanced focus/filters using the four place types (city, county, state, country) that works well for me in the USA and make it works pretty well for the motherlands my ancestry comes from (yes, I realize that may not work ...

Michael, any word? Who and how long? Or did this get lost in the shuffle?

They are in my sources, not in notes. Yes, I have had experience with many of those things. However, we obviously have two different methods. Differences are not bad, just different and that is okay. For me, this is a personal thing to have consistency throughout the database.

To me, the cemetery name, like a hospital, belongs in the source citation. Very easily searched, contains address, telephone, inscription, etc.

In my opinion, burial has two puposes, burial date and place-name (City, County, State, Country just like other place-names). This approach works very well for me. I pretty much have no notes, only sources. To me, hospital, cemetery, church, etc. all belong in the source citation. It would be intere...

If something like that was done, I think I would personally prefer a new field AND the change to PAF (with other changes). I believe every repository for primary source citations on burials is the cemetery itself. I have almost completely moved away from notes as I found most every note had a source...

I personally find it extremely easy to find a cemetery name within my sources for burial. The only "notes" that I use are the "comments" within my source citations. I have a national database that shows 37 cemeteries in Salt Lake county, 21 in Utah county, etc. I did not want to ...

I find this poll, the dilution, and the comparison to other polls rather interesting. In Poll: How to recommend naming of counties in article titles? , it was 8 in favor of adding "County", 3 against, 0 showing no county name. In Poll: How to recommend naming a town within an article title...

How about one forum for best practices and the rest here? I am just a little concerned that other things not related to best practices may fall through the cracks.